Thorny Blue Rose – In LMC

Discovered by William Herschel in 1835, NGC 1965 -66 is one of the many objects we can image within the Large Magellanic Cloud. The bright emission nebula and embedded star cluster present a thorny blue rose shaped image formed by massive amounts of gas and dust. 

An imager in the southern hemisphere can spend the whole season imaging fantastic objects from our outstanding neighboring galaxy. This is one of the highest resolution images of this object to date. Also, visible open clusters, globular clusters, dust clouds and proximate emission nebulae. Many are still un-catalogued.

Imaged in SHORGB on our Planewave CDK 24 (SHO) and RiDK 500 RGB color at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile 

Processing: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby

 Enjoy,

Mike & Mark

See the labeled version and video below.